Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-03-06

Continent, he telegraphs: 4" II | do not
arrive before, hope to reach the Cape
by March 9, 1888" The departure of
the expedition is due to the letters re-
ceived from Emin Pasha, and forwarded
by DR.. William Junker, who WAS for
merly his travelling companion. Adj
ditional to these there were received
from DR.. Junker, then at Zanzibar,
dispatches which showed how imminent
was the peril to which Emin Pasha was
exposed, surrounded by warlike enc
mics in equatorial Africa. When STAN
ley reached Cairo on his present mis-
sion of relief he met Junker there for
the first time. Writing January 29th
last, he gives a pen-picture of the
eminent Russian explorer. CDR.
Junker," he says, sis short man,
now inclined to embonpoint, though he
has not yet regained his full measure OF
strength. He wears full beard, and
the general cast of his face is strongly
marked. He has a plentiful crop of
hair, worn thick and long and brushed
backward. He is amiable, frank, mod
est To every question he answered
without reserve. He is so free, in fact,
that without my asking he is about pre-
senting me with map of his travels
seven feet long L can see that he
has method of his own, which, added
to his peculiar patience, love of exacti-
tude, has enabled him to present in
sensible shape the topography of the
country. It's remarkable survey by
compass-every tiny hill and every tiny
stream is down, and under all | see the
sturdy form of the patient, honest man
doing his best with, all the faculties ma
tire gave him and education ripened for
him. Looking up from his wonderful
map and seeing him before me | recog-
nized that Russia had also given us
true and loyal-hearted African explorer.
BE J romises to tell the Royal and Scot
fish Geographical Societies some day
what he can, and though his English il
rot Of the best and his appearance un'
imposing, ! venture to say that when
English geogTaphers see his map they
will forget his bad English and all else,
and only see honest Junker trudging
patiently with his tiny caravan, making
music with his ACCORDION to the won
dering tribes of the Welle Makwa Val
ley, and collating valuable facts for
civilized mankind. They must admire
the mans modesty. Russia will be
justified in making much of this quaint
hero, and indeed any country might
well be. Take my word you will like
him."
To this beautiful tribnte a few bio
graphical facts may be added. DIR.
William Junker comes of Russo-Ger-
man parentage, and was born in Mos
COW in 1870 He was educated at St.
Petersburg ami Gottingen, and studied
medicine in the latter place, as well as
Mt Berlin and Prague.
DR.. Junker began his African travels
about ten years ago, exploring portions
of Tunis and Upper Egypt. Six years
ago he went into the heart of Africa, al
his own expense, to complete the ex-
ploration of the country lying in the
basins in the Bahr el Ghazal and Welle
Makwa rivers. From the depths of that
mysterious region he has but recently
emerged; and his accounts OF the re-
suits of his geographical, botanical, and
chronological studies in the new field
will, when published, be one OF the
most interesting contributions of late
years TO our knowledge OF the Dark
Continent.